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Paul Gray is the GrammyA(R) Award winning bassist of Slipknot. In his IMV Behind the Player DVD, Gray gives an intimate behind-the scenes look at his life as a professional musician - including rare photos and video footage.
Gray then gives in-depth bass lessons for how to play Duality and Surfacing by Slipknot and jams the tracks with Stone Sour drummer Roy Mayorga.
VideoTaba shows exactly how Gray plays the two tracks. The video-game-style animated tablature is similar to GuitarHero(TM), but shows how to play the tracks for real.
Other IMV Behind the Player titles include:
* KoRn guitarist Munky
* Rob Zombie guitarist John 5
* Atreyu guitarist Dan Jacobs
* Tim Skold, former guitarist and bassist for Marilyn Manson
* Velvet Revolver bassist Duff McKagan
* Alice in Chains bassist Mike Inez
* KoRn bassist Fieldy
* Ozzy Osbourne bassist Blasko
* Godsmack bassist Robbie Merrill
* Rob Zombie drummer Tommy Clufetos
* Jane's Addiction and Porno for Pyros drummer Stephen Perkins
* Godsmack drummer Shannon Larkin
* and guitar legend George Lynch.
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Not just for idiots The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Guitar is perfect for beginners of all ages. Featuring lessons on how to read standard music notation and TAB, ideal for use with acoustic and electric guitars, and including over 60 popular songs covering rock, heavy metal, blues, country, jazz, and folk styles, the guide teaches how to play chords, scales, and cool licks with lessons in full-motion video with high quality digital audio sound.
The Interactive GuitarView song player allows viewers to see exactly how each song should be played, including note names, finger numbers, scale degrees, and advanced techniques such as slides, bends, hammer-ons, pull-offs, and vibrato. Plus, the guitar fretboard syncs note-for-note to standard and TAB notation, and users can adjust the tempo of digital audio files without changing the pitch Be ready to play from the most popular guitar folios and even play in a band The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Guitar features everything you need to start playing now
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Chinese folk religion is the underlying belief system of more than a billion people. Wherever there is a Chinese community there are temples and shrines with altars, statues and paper images. But how do these beliefs connect to Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism? This book explains the building blocks of this religion, touching upon anthropology, history, numerology, feng shui, mythology, nature cults and ancestor worship. Includes colour images of the major gods of the Chinese pantheon.
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Chinese gods: Who are they? Where did they come from? What do they do?
Chinese folk religion is the underlying belief system of more than a billion Chinese people. Go into any Chinese home, office or restaurant andyou will see altars, statues or paper 'good luck' images. And wherever there is a Chinese community there are temples and Earth God shrines. But what is the religion that makes sense of all these expressions of belief? How do these beliefs connect to Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism?
Chinese Gods helps us understand the building blocks of this religion for which even the Chinese have no name because the beliefs are so intertwined with language and culture they have no independent existence--and provides an in-depth analysis of 19 of the major gods of the Chinese pantheon.
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Pianist and composer Sylvia Rabinof has written beautiful accompaniments to 15 masterpieces from the world's most celebrated composers. Intermediate to Early Advanced; for two pianos, four hands. Titles: Musette from Notebook for Anna Magdalena (Bach) * Minuet in G Major from Notebook for Anna Magdalena (Bach) * Minuet in G Minor from Notebook for Anna Magdalena (Bach) * FA1/4r Elise (Beethoven) * Chaconne on Air Didoas Lament from Dido and Aeneas (Purcell) * LAndler in D Major (Beethoven) * LAndler in A Minor (Schubert) * The Happy Farmer (Schumann) * Pour le Lute (Little Prelude No. 3 in C Minor) (Bach) * Invention No. 8 in F Major (Bach) * Solfeggietto (C. P. E. Bach) * Rondo Alla Turca from Sonata in A Major, K. 331 (Mozart) * Invention No. 13 in A Minor (Bach) Clair de Lune from Suite bergamasque (Debussy) * Sonata in C Major, K. 545 (First Movement) (Mozart). 88 pages.
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This text provides the building blocks of this religion for which even the Chinese have no name. The beliefs are so intertwined with language and culture they have no independent existence. Chamberlain also provides an in-depth analysis of 19 major gods of the Chinese pantheon.